"Art edition including an LP with the recordings at the Istituto della Calcografia Nazionale in Rome of 2 world premiere compositions by Philip Corner and Daniele Lombardi. Issued in 80 signed and numbered copies and including excerpts form the original scores. Philip Corner "Tenebres: Lesson & Light" (Studies in Shadow and Light), learning from the dark the grand lesson of music. The darkest sound in music is the tone-cluster. In full accord with those presences in the outer world we so lovingly (or not) like to call Noise! Daniele Lombardi "Le Son des Tčnebres", for prepared and amplified piano with live electronics. The piece starts with a simple and quite short sound cluster which develops through micro-variations into an increasing complexity. In the very dense central part the sound materials loose their context after which a process of simplification gradually brings us back to the initial sound cluster." (label info)